"ALE agents are also looking into where Kania got the fake identification that he gave to state troopers after the crash. Assistant Orange County District Attorney Jeff Nieman said in court Thursday that the ID was the driver's license of someone who was 21 and that Kania didn't have his own license with him.

Authorities said criminal charges could be brought against the person who gave Kania the ID or bartenders who served him."

Because it was the person who gave him the ID and the bars where he showed a REAL ID that made this man get behind the wheel of the car and kill 3 people. Where are the charges against the people that sold him the jeep?

I wonder if they can prove that it was known by his parents he had drank underage in the past. I mean, my parents knew I drank underage while I was in college. If they can prove the parents knew that he partied, then they should have charges brought against them too.

"CLOVER, S.C. -- A Clover woman with two convictions for drinking and driving and one case pending, got into a deadly Saturday morning crash in south Charlotte.

Kelly Ann Conkin, 23, is charged with felony death by a motor vehicle and DWI. Police say her Hyundai crossed the median on South Tryon near Moss and slammed into a Toyota Camry, killing Cecilia De Gonzalez, 79, and seriously injuring her daughter and son-in-law.

One of De Gonzalez’s daughters tells NBC Charlotte, “My mom passed because of her. She shouldn’t be on the street. She should be held responsible.” "

De Gonzalez lived in Colombia and was dedicated to her faith and community by helping abused girls and the homeless. Four of her eight children live in Charlotte and she was in town visiting.

“Three DWIs in 10 years is a permanent revocation of your driver’s license,” said criminal defense attorney, Mark Jetton.

However, Conkin still had hers. Jetton says she could have faced lengthy suspensions had the convictions all happened in North Carolina, but she is from South Carolina where the punishment isn’t as severe. She has one DWI in Mecklenburg County and two DUI cases in York County, one which resulted in a conviction.

Since the offenses happened in different states, Jetton says that's where things get tricky.

“When you are dealing with DWIs, it always gets tricky when you have multiple states,” said Jetton. “You get a DWI conviction in a state and then you go to another state and that state's DMV doesn't know about this DWI conviction in another state and they issue a license."

Jetton says states do utilize technology to communicate with one another and a previous conviction can be used against you in your home state. Still, he says cases can fall through the cracks.

“What if there are two that are pending at the same time and you get convicted of one, and before that conviction can even be put in the system, you are convicted of the other one, so neither place knew about the other one,” said Jetton. “It’s not a perfect system."

Conkins’ two convictions went through the courts around the same time, so it is possible that they were each treated as first offenses.

Conkin is currently in a local hospital for her injuries related to the crash.

Detectives say she should be released in a few days and then transported to the Mecklenburg County Jail.

Funeral services for De Gonzalez will be held Wednesday at St. Marks Catholic Church in Huntersville.

Here is a winner...semi local too. Cop drives part of the way home, pulls over himself, calls 911 and asks them to send an officer to drive him home. Not sure if its worse that he called 911 instead of an uber or taxi, that he was driving drunk to begin with, or that he was too stupid to know that if he just parked first and got out and called for a ride he would have been in the clear.

You can be arrested for driving drunk just sitting in the driver seat of a parked car that is running...so he definitely was breaking the law.

"Troopers with South Carolina Highway Patrol saw a school bus on SC 34 in Newberry County traveling eastbound in the westbound lane without headlights shortly after 7 p.m. Sunday, according to Sergeant Bob Beres with the South Carolina Highway Patrol.

The school bus was a green and white full-sized activity bus from Goose Creek High School and Berkeley County, according to Troopers. The group was returning from a drama competition.

A traffic stop was performed as the bus got on the eastbound entrance ramp to Interstate 26.

Carter was arrested as a result of the traffic stop; troopers say his blood-alcohol concentration registered at .18 percent, more than twice the legal limit. "

This is a can of worms, but I find it interesting that there could be a report of a shooting somewhere and people will be up in arms about gun control legislation, etc... Someone dies in a DWI situation and it's crickets for the most part...

""All of us in the N.C. State community are grieving the tragic loss of Cheyanne Hass, a bright and ambitious Electrical Engineering student who was set to graduate this coming Saturday," Chancellor Randy Woodson said in a statement. "To all of our students, on behalf of N.C. State, I want to remind and encourage each of you to take care of yourselves and look after each other as you celebrate the end of the school year and graduation.""

And then you get puff statements like this.While I do understand that there needs to be a bit of respect and decorum for the deceased. This statement should have been more blunt. DON'T DRINK AND DRIVE! If you are going to get behind the wheel or in the car with someone who has been drinking, there will be grave consequences. This taking care and looking after each other beating around the bush bullshit. This girl obviously thought she was being taken care of by a friend, Chancelor Woodson....

I agree. People, young people especially, view DWIs as a joke, because they so often get dismissed in court on BS lawyer tricks and technicalities. So kids think "hell, if I get popped my lawyer will get me off anyways". Simply put, many people dont take the issue or consequences or punishment seriously....they dont have to see the results.

^ i think its because more often than not, people drive somewhat drunk and make it home unscathed. it's the feeling of invincibility until that one unfortunate time you get either pinched or kill someone.

There was a fatal drunk-driving crash Sunday night in Maggie Valley/Waynesville.

Can't link a story right now, but the victim was known by several mutual FB friends and I gathered info from them:

71-year-old drunk guy ran a red light and hit a nurse/mother of three. As she was being tended to by onlookers and was breathing her last breaths, he got out of his truck, which had landed near an Exxon. He went in, BOUGHT MORE BEER, AND PROCEEDED TO SIT OUTSIDE AND DRINK IT UNTIL THE POLICE ARRIVED.

I have spent a great deal of time in Haywood county and usually when I drive around up there I think to myself how challenging those roads must be for a drunk driver. They seem pretty treacherous when you are sober.

^ a guy ran into my grandma's car in the street. He must have been going very fast, because his crown vic pushed my grandma's car through two mailboxes and over the curb. His car was totalled. I went out to get the paper in the morning and saw his crown vic stranded against the curb and my grandma's car in the yard. There were empty beer cans in the crown vic, and I found a crumpled up note about 10 feet away in the bushes that ready something like "I'm sorry I hit your car, you can find me at [address 10 houses down the street]". The note actually left on my grandma's car just said "please call [phone number]". I called the cops, gave them both notes, and the cop went down the road to follow up.

When the cop came back, he gave us an accident report but said no charges would be filed. He said the driver was a 20 year-old guy that was currently drunk, but everyone at the house verified he arrived at the house sober and had been drinking heavily since he arrived. He claimed that he also rang the doorbell to try to find someone so he wouldn't be charged with leaving the scene of an accident either (which was bullshit because the dogs in the house would have gone apeshit if someone rang the doorbell even if I wasn't woken up by it).